Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Alarmist David Karoly laments increased climate skepticism in the media

Unleashed: Climate change science misinformation
Recently, there has been an increase in opinion pieces in the media questioning the scientific understanding of global warming. This is not reflected in a surge of scientific publications suggesting that increasing greenhouse gases are not the cause of recent global warming. Instead, the vast majority of scientific studies support and strengthen this conclusion.
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Global climate models are important physically-based tools for studying climate variability and change, with more than twenty different models developed independently around the world. They simulate well the magnitude of observed global-scale temperature variations. The long-term warming trend over the 20th century simulated by climate models agrees with that observed only when increasing greenhouse gases are included in the models.
More on Professor of Meteorology Karoly is here:
I was Co-coordinating Lead Author of the chapter "Detection of Climate Change and Attribution of Causes" in the international scientific assessment of climate change prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published in 2001.

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